What have you done for your bike today????

[Tronspeed3]

Took her out for a ride for the first time since she left me stranded!

[bikeneil]

Took my GS on it's first overnight camping trip. It wasn't far from home, maybe 15 miles. Just wanted to test my equipment out before i take a muti-day trip to PA.

Packing my hard cases. The two 36L cases hold lots of stuff, so all i need to strap on the seat is my tent and tarp.

What type of hard bags do you have, Givi? and can you get mounting brackets to fit or do you have to modify some? Any help would be useful, I would like to put hard bags on my 2006 GS500F.
Thanks

[adidasguy]

Rode Phenix today. FUN! WOW!
Hanging idle going way. I thing the carbs needed some use and some loving. There are no air leaks as per liberal spraying of starter fluid.

I'm going to explore the vacuum switch and the sensor for 1st and 2nd. Maybe the ICU controlling that vacuum switch is causing extra vacuum in the carb caps to keep them open longer? Experimenting will tell. That will happen in the weeks to come.

Put all the children to bed for a couple days.
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Never in my life could I have dreamed or imagined that I would have 5 running motorcycles. Time to sell Trey.

[Watevaman]

 Finally got those exhaust bolts drilled out!

One step closing to getting Jessy back on the road.

[slipperymongoose]

Cleaned, lubed, and aligned cods's chain, and did the rear sag measurements and adjustments on both our bikes R6 shocks.

[Zwerski]

Replaced a bunch of rusty ugly bolts with shiny stainles allen drive button head hardware!

[madjak30]

Picked up the new rim, fork, shift lever & front axle from the dealer...got home and realized I need to get them to press in the wheel bearings and install a valve stem in the rim...friggg...

I'll be riding by the weekend!!

Later.

[knowles]

Got to go out and ride with my brother for about two hours, got home just as it started to rain. Lost him in the twisties, he has a Can-am Spider, but he drives kind of slow (he likes to look around only goes about 50-55mph) but it was fun to go.

[codajastal]

Cleaned, lubed, and aligned cods's chain, and did the rear sag measurements and adjustments on both our bikes R6 shocks.

What he said

[jmill]

My new-used givi a750 came in today. Needs some paint, but until the rain stops it'll make a pretty good spare helmet. Can't beat 50 bones shipped.

[Cosimo_Zaretti]

This was my tuesday.

So I wanted to up the rear spring preload to take a pillion, it's currently set at 2 which is unusable with a pillion.  I tried to get a generic adjustable c wrench anywhere near the shock collar.  There was no getting close to it so I decided to remove the little mudflap on the bottom of the swingarm to give myself some clearance.  Then I managed to strip out one of the two philips screws holding it on.  Suzuki's liking for using philips heads on these chunky bolts made out of quite crappy steel is starting to shaZam! me.  Especially when they put them in places like the bottom of the swingarm, where they're just going to rust in place.

Tried to drill in an ezy out.  No dice.  Hacksawing a new screw slot was similarly fruitless, I could get a bit of a turn on it, but then the flatblade screwdriver would chew out more steel and I'd have to file the shape back into it, and then I did get a 1/4 turn on it, which put it at the wrong angle to reach with a hacksaw or file.  My heavy hammer drill died the other week, not that I'd have had the clearance to get it in there,  The little cordless drill doesn't really spin fast enough to drill out steel with the bits I had available.

Next contestant: the angle grinder.  I worked out I could reach it with the 4" grinding wheel, provided I removed the chain.  I decided to just pop the front sprocket off, and as I was removing the cover, the work floodlight burned out it's globe.  I ruled out trying to use an angle grider without a very good light source, especially as my safety glasses are tinted.

Ok, do it the old fashioned way.  I put on some music and started filing.  I managed to get through most of the screw head before bed time.  Before going to bed I looked up GStwins and found that most people just hit the collar with a punch cos you can't really get a C wrench in there properly anyway.

[daski-emt]

Drove it to the hospital where my 4th child was born this morning at 12:01am!        

[shonole]

Drove it to the hospital where my 4th child was born this morning at 12:01am!      

Congrats!

[slipperymongoose]

Congrats on the birth, I fitted up my new 30mm risers

[knowles]

Drove it to the hospital where my 4th child was born this morning at 12:01am!      

Congrats, I got one coming in Nov.

Rode to work ya 

[stroztech]

Drove it to the hospital where my 4th child was born this morning at 12:01am!      

Congrats! 

Gave the chain a well-overdue  clean and lube, and the rest of the bike a good look over, ready for the "GS500 around Australia Relay" meetup at Bordertown this weekend, in South Australia. 
I just need to top up the oil and she's ready to go!

[knowles]

New plugs, trying to find out the cause for one header pipe getting red hot, during warm up.

[deets]

New chain front and rear sprockets old lasted 25k, new rear tire, (sport demon), ordered ss front and rear brake line's to be installed next week think I will replace rear brake pads all most worn out...hope disc is ok.  black dog ride on Sunday

[slipperymongoose]

Had my new sport demon rear fitted today and now my bike actually wants to corner

[k.rollin]

I replaced my rusted chrome bar clamp bolts and finally relocated my horn so it isn't hanging off the left side of the bike.